Yaka, Gelendost

Yaka is a village in Gelendost District, Isparta Province, Turkey.

The area around Yaka was probably populated during the Neolithic Age and there is a rock carved figure of a female to the east of the town which is thought to be of Cybele, the mother goddess of ancient Anatolia.

The name of the town suggests that these people may be of Yaka tribe from Mangyshlak Peninsula at the east coast of Caspian Sea, now in Kazakhstan.

[4] Cattle rising and apple production constitute the main revenues of the town.

Another source of revenue is the former town residents who now are working in Germany as gastarbeiter.